Resources

They Came for the Children: Canada, Aboriginal Peoples, and Residential Schools, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2012)

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission – Calls to Action (2015)

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National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls – Calls to Justice (2019)

Moose Hide Campaign An Indigenous-led grassroots movement of men, boys and all Canadians – standing up to end violence against women and children: https://moosehidecampaign.ca/

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Remix 2 Resilience (R2R) (2021) A three-day online gathering of Indigenous community representatives with a diverse group of Indigenous musicians, academics and cultural organizers to build networks, deliver resources and facilitate knowledge sharing. The themes of Stories, Language Canadian Artists for Reconciliation and Education and Land will inform the daily keynotes, workshops, panels and artist showcases. Presented by the 2 Rivers Remix Society (2RRS) and VirtualFeast.ca.

https://virtualfeast.ca/events/remix-2-resilience-the-confluence

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) 

https://nctr .ca

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Cindy Blackstock (First Nations Child and Family Caring Society)

https://fncaringsociety.com

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The Indian Residential School Survivors Society

https://www.irsss.ca/

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Legacy of Hope Foundation

https://legacyofhope.ca/wherearethechildren/stories/

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Downie-Wenjack Foundation

https://downiewenjack.ca/

https://www.215pledge.ca/recommended-resources/

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Carey Newman (Ha-yalth-kingeme) Artist

The Witness Blanket

http://witnessblanket.ca

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Orange Shirt Society #OrangeShirtDay

https://www.orangeshirtday.org/

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Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation:

https://www.sixtiesscoophealingfoundation.ca/

 

Sixties Scoop Network

https://sixtiesscoopnetwork.org

The Honourable Murray Sinclair – Statement June 1, 2021

https://fb.watch/5TvTBV66Ih/

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Video link also included on this website – The Current, CBC Radio Jun 2,

2021

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-june-2-2021-1.6049839/murray-sinclair-calls-for-inquiry-into-residential-school-burial-sites-more-support-for-survivors-1.6050375

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National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR)

Dialogue Series

https://nctr.ca/news-and-events/nctr-events/nctr-dialogues/

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Video featuring the late Sarah Robinson. The Walrus Talks National Tour

We Desire a Better Country. Recorded March 1, 2017, at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, in Whitehorse.

https://youtu.be/nDlIMMZ2gRM

FILM - DOCUMENTARY

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Alanis Obomsawin

Award-winning Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obamsawim has an extensive catalogue of documentary films available for viewing on the National Film Board website

https://www.nfb.ca/directors/alanis-obomsawin/

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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)

https://www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsatake_270_years_of_resistance/

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Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair (2021)

https://www.nfb.ca/film/honour-to-senator-murray-sinclair/

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Also:

Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin and the quiet power of listening

CBC Ideas (Nov 2023)

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/indigenous-filmmaker-alanis-obomsawin-beatty-lecture-1.7019757

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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (2021) Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

https://www.nfb.ca/film/kimmapiiyipitssini-the-meaning-of-empathy/

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Documentary (and Book):

Clayton Thomas-Muller – Life in the City of Dirty Water:

https://lifeinthecityofdirtywater.com/

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Raoul Peck 

Exterminate All The Brutes (2021) 

https://www.hbo.com/exterminate-all-the-brutes/season-1

 

Tasha Hubbard

nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019)

(Full Documentary; follows the family of Colten Boushie in their pursuit of justice): https://www.nfb.ca/film/nipawistamasowin-we-will-stand-up/

 

Excerpt from nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up:

https://youtu.be/IUHnKUaDYjs

 

Tasha Hubbard

Birth of a Family (2017)

https://www.nfb.ca/film/birth_of_a_family/

 

FILM - STORY

 

Jennifer Podemski & Hannah Moskovitch

Little Bird (2023)

https://www.aptn.ca/media-centre/shows/little-bird/

 

Marie Clements

Bones of Crows (2023)

https://bonesofcrows.com

 

Tracey Deer 

Beans (2021)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tracey-deer-new-film-beans-1.6118115

Prolific The Rapper x A Tribe Called Red – Black Snakes [Updated]; Filmed

At Standing Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdeHUrL1FEM

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Song that you are invited to learn and sing:

Patrick Aleck (Composer) – Equality Song

https://youtu.be/LC3HEiFb2x4

Connie Walker – Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s (Season 2)

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/stolen

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Duncan McCue – Kuper Island

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1062-kuper-island

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Connie Walker - Finding Cleo

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/findingcleo

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Rachel Zelniker, Charles Hamilton - Boushie

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/180-boushie

Cindy Blackstock interviewed on The Current, CBC Radio May 31, 2021: Calls for accountability after remains of 215 children found at former Kamloops residential school. 

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-31-2021-1.6046642

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The Honourable Murray Sinclair and Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe), director of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre interviewed on The Current, CBC Radio Jun 2, 2021 

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-june-2-2021-1.6049839

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Michelle Good interviewed on CBC Radio: The Sunday Magazine - June 18, 2023: Michelle Good continues Canada’s conversations on colonialism with new essays “Truth Telling”

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2229592131986

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Tanya Talaga – 2018 CBC Massey Lectures

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2018-cbc-massey-lectures-all-our-relations-finding-the-path-forward-1.4763007

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Thomas King – 2003 CBC Massey Lectures

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2003-cbc-massey-lectures-the-truth-about-stories-a-native-narrative-1.2946870

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When AA Bronson approached the Siksika people, Blackfoot artist Adrian Stimson decided to listen (Sep 23, 2020)

https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/artconnectsonq/art-connects-on-q-aa-bronson-adrian-stimson

Michelle Good (2023). Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada (Harper Collins).

https://www.michellegood.ca/

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Suzanne Keeptwo (2021). We All Go Back To The Land: The Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgments. (Brush Education)

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Phyllis Webstad (2021). Beyond the Orange Shirt Story. (Medicine Wheel Education) 

https://medicinewheel.education/collections/phyllis-webstad/products/beyond-the-orange-shirt-story

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Clayton Thomas-Muller (2021). Life in the City of Dirty Water.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634477/life-in-the-city-of-dirty-water-by-clayton-thomas-muller/

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Gina Starblanket (2020). Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial (ARP Press)

https://arpbooks.org/product/storying-violence/

 

Jessica McDiarmid (2019). Highway of Tears 

http://jessicamcdiarmid.com/highwayoftears/

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Bob Joseph (2018). 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act.

See also: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/21-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-indian-act-1.3533613

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John S. Milloy (2017). A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System. (U of Manitoba Press).

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Tanya Talaga (2017). Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City. (House of Anansi)

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Edmund Metatawabin, with Alexandra Shimo (2014). Up Ghost River. (Vintage Canada).

 

Bev Sellars (2013). They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (Talonbooks)

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Thomas King (2013). The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. (Penguin Random House)

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Paulette Regan (2011). Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada. (UBC Press)

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Heritage BC https://heritagebc.ca/

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Setting the Bar: A GUIDE TO ACHIEVE NEW STANDARDS FOR RECONCILIATION WITHIN THE HERITAGE SECTOR (pdf)

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E. Brian Titley

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada, 

 

Ronald Niezen

Truth and Indignation: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools 

 

Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham

Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress

 

Larry Loyie, Wayne K. Spear and Constance Brissenden

Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors.

Michelle Good (2020). Five Little Indians. (Harper Perennial)

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Richard Wagamese (2012). Indian Horse.

 

Richard Wagamese (1994). Keeper ‘N Me. [Sixties Scoop]

Indigenous Canada – Free online course through University of Alberta

https://www.ualberta.ca/admissions-programs/online-courses/indigenous-canada/

 

Canadian History Through the Lens of Indigenous Women

https://deyen.ca/courses/canadian-history-through-the-lens-of-indigenous-women

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https://www.classroomready.com/product/indigenous-truth-and-reconciliation-workbook/ 

Language/Culture

http://www.firstvoices.com

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Land Acknowledgement

https://native-land.ca/

https://www.whose.land/en/

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​Suzanne Keeptwo (2021). We All Go Back To The Land: The Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgments. (Brush Education)